Python emacs mode (newbie)

[Syver Enstad]

Is there anybody who has any idea on how to implement a module loading
function in GNU Emacs like the one Pythonwin has?

The basic idea is that instead of writing a file name you write a module
name, like ex:
httplib or win32com.client.dynamic and the editor will load the specified
module.

I guess the implementation would work around searching the python path, but
I am total newbie in elisp (and lisp itself for that matter) and could use
some pointers as to how to search the filesystem from elisp, get the
registry keys or environment variables for the pythonpath, and how to load a
file into the current window.